Airhitch Hookup Ends in Bitchslap

By consumerist.comMay 15, 2006

Customer looks for answers from airhitch.org, a site that helps people hitchhike on commercial jets; instead, gets ass roundly handed to them. After the conversation turns deadly, the customer threatens to take a screenshot of the chat and send it around cyberworld, the Airhitch CSR tells him to, “Send it to GOD if you want.”

And for bonus kicks, here’s what happened when the author of “Cooking to Hook Up” had the gall to ask about some West Coast travel arrangements. What followed was a didactic and vituperative stream of emails from “customer service” whose exhortations are only excusable by their psychotic, elitist and quite amusing nature.

…..This reminds me of the conversation I had with the Symantec support guy, six months after I had bought the Norton Anti-virus 3.0 lifetime upgrade package. They canceled support of that product after only six months. The tech guy said that my only recourse was to buy a new NAV 4.0 package, but it really wasn’t. A cracked Norton Systemworks 2002 CD-R from a co-worker worked just as well, and forced Norton to honor more of their obligation! Of course, I got tired of what a system-hog Norton was, and switched to AVG Free. You can actually run it without choking your system…